Breathing Space

Breathing Space(7’56) is an acousmatic work that uses the human voice as the only sound source. As the title suggests, the driving force of the work is the breath and its potential to evoke different sensations of space.

The piece explores the voice both as an expressive, humane tool of communication and as a more abstract, purely sonorous instrument. In general, Breathing Space continually overlaps the border between literal and metaphorical implications and also the ambiguous relationship between ‘natural’ and processed sounds. The form proceeds as a relatively free exploration of these multiple vocal possibilities but comes to pivot on a transformation from intense saturation to extreme reduction.